Slipping Off the Edge: How and why Democratic Regimes Fall into Excess in their Fight against Terrorism
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2016-04
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International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences
Анотація
Democratic regimes’ resorting to excessive force when fighting against terrorists is
chrestomathically defined as “deviations” or “mistakes”. However, the frequency with which such
“deviations” and “mistakes” take place and regular repetition of several scenarios give us the right
to speak not so much about random dysfunctions as about standard political situations in whose
framework, contrary to assertions of democracies’ immanent softness and moderation in
administering violence even to their avowed enemies, democratic regimes with high probability can
apply excessive force to their armed antagonists. This article wants to probe deeper into the
question of the causes of such behaviour of democratic governments and to outline most probable
sociopolitical scenarios of these governments’ falling into excess while combating terrorists.
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terrorism; democracy; illiberal democracy; counterterrorism; excessive force
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Proshin D. Slipping Off the Edge: How and why Democratic Regimes Fall into Excess in their Fight against Terrorism / D. Proshin // International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences. - 2016. - Vol. 68. - P. 49-54